The city of Akkad or known otherwise as Agade was an ancient city located in modern day Iraq. It was well known for its fertile location right between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. Unfortunately this intriguing site is still undiscovered. Although this site is still undiscovered there is an archaeologist named Sir Austen Layard who began digging at both Nimrud and Kuyunjik. What he found was astonishing he discovered the ruins of the Royal Library of the great-grandson of Sargon II. They continued to excavate this site for twenty-five years and found over 10,000 tablets of both Sumerian language and Akkadian language. The discovery of these tablets has helped us to figure out information about how these people lived their lives and managed to survive for so long.
What we do know about the city and culture of Akkad is that they were Semitic people. They also had a language of their own, known as Akkadian. We know this because excavations of Sumerian sites at around the first millennium BC which had medicine tablets and other very important tablets which told us about their culture, which where written in this language (Akkadian). From these Akkadian scripts we know that the Akkadian people loved education and knowledge. They strived for more knowledge just so they could improve their well-being. We also know that they had an impressive army that ruled the area along with the Sumerians. There is evidence of tools and weapons, which had sharp points that were hurled through the air at their opposing enemies. We also know that the Akkadian people tended to stay in one place for as long as they could or until the rivers overflowed forcing them to abandon their cities, which they would come back to after the river had receded. They had houses that were made to stay in one place and were not meant to be moved. They where also farmers along with other people in this fertile location between the two rivers Euphrates and the Tigris. Since the site of Agade is still undiscovered we do not know a whole lot about the Akkadian people. We do have some information about the Akkadian people through other sites around this area.
Resources:
http://www.ianlawton.com/mes1.htm
http://www.unc.edu/courses/clar047/sg3Ak-Ur3.html
Written By: Richard B. Shir